# Sebastien Lefevbre

> Sebastien Lefevbre is a seed investor at Elaia backing Artificial Intelligence. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Elaia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elaia-partners)
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Dec 2022
- Lead investor: 60%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Sebastien Lefevbre is a seed investor at Elaia focused on Artificial Intelligence and Apps. Sebastien Lefevbre - CEO @ Mesagraph

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $796k–$5.6M |
| Pre-Seed | $395k–$1.6M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 40% |
| Apps | 1 | 20% |
| SaaS | 1 | 20% |
| Software | 1 | 20% |
| Insurance | 1 | 20% |

9 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 60% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 40% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 2 | 40% |
| Spain | 1 | 20% |
| Portugal | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Giskard | Giskard is the first automated Red Teaming platform for AI agents to prevent security vulnerabilities and ensure business alignment. We are committed to ensuring companies can deploy AI Agents with trust, by advancing research in AI Safety and providing the leading standards for LLM quality & security testing in critical applications.We areproud to be backed by leading investors such as Elaia, Bessemer Venture Partners, and the CTO of Hugging Face. Giskard is trusted by industry leaders including AXA, BNP Paribas, Michelin, and Google DeepMind to ensure their AI models are reliable, secure, and robust, allowing them to deploy Generative AI applications with confidence and trust. | $1.6M | Seed | Dec 15, 2022 | https://giskard.ai |
| Giskard | Giskard is the first automated Red Teaming platform for AI agents to prevent security vulnerabilities and ensure business alignment. We are committed to ensuring companies can deploy AI Agents with trust, by advancing research in AI Safety and providing the leading standards for LLM quality & security testing in critical applications.We areproud to be backed by leading investors such as Elaia, Bessemer Venture Partners, and the CTO of Hugging Face. Giskard is trusted by industry leaders including AXA, BNP Paribas, Michelin, and Google DeepMind to ensure their AI models are reliable, secure, and robust, allowing them to deploy Generative AI applications with confidence and trust. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Dec 15, 2022 | https://giskard.ai |
| Continuity | Continuity’s SaaS platform uses Open Data and AI to detect insurance contracts that are either outdated or invalid across four product lines including Professional Indemnity, Commercial Property, Construction Workers Insurance, and Directors & Officers Liability. | $5.6M | Seed | Nov 23, 2021 | https://www.continuity-tech.ai/ |
| HiJiffy | HiJiffy is an innovative solution that centralizes, automates, and measures all hotel customer service activities, integrating innovative technology in a simple, reliable, and robust platform, used daily in more than 1400 hotels, in 30 countries. The hotels using HiJiffy have an average automation rate of 80%, being fundamental in a time when theguest’s contacts are more and more complex. With HiJiffy hotels can ensure that they will have instant replies 24/7 digital. | $395K | Pre-Seed | Jul 17, 2018 | http://hijiffy.com |
| Vitcord | Vitcord is creating a new way of seeing the world through video. Until now people create content individually. In an hyper-connected digital environment, Vitcord makes us co-creators of video, through an app that allows all to add clips, either for a particular event or motivation, creating unique content on video. With vitcord,we pretend to helpevents and social viral motivations, to manage unique chains of co-created videos. | $796K | Seed | Mar 09, 2017 | http://vitcord.com |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [MOBILE WORLD CAPITAL](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mobile-world-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bpifrance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bpifrance) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Kamet](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kamet) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Elaia

VC Fund · Paris, France

Elaia is a European full stack tech and deep tech investor. We partner with ambitious entrepreneurs from inception to leadership, helping them navigate the future and the unknown. For over twenty years, we have combined deep scientific and technological expertise with decades of operational experience to back those building tomorrow. Our jointventure with Lazard, Lazard Elaia Capital, enables us to support exceptional founders at any stage. From our offices in Paris, Barcelona and Tel Aviv, we have been active partners with over 100 startups including Criteo, Mirakl, Shift Technology, AQEMIA and Alice & Bob.

5 contacts available at Elaia.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Louisa Mesnard | CMO & Head of Sustainability | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/louisa-mesnard |
| Philippe Gire | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/philippe-gire |
| Sofia Dahoune | Investment Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sofia-dahoune |
| Anne-Sophie Carrese | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anne-sophie-carr%C3%A8se |
| Céline Passedouet | Investment Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/c%C3%A9line-passedouet |

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## FAQ

### What does Sebastien Lefevbre invest in?

Sebastien Lefevbre invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Apps and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Sebastien Lefevbre's check size?

Sebastien Lefevbre typically joins rounds of $796k–$5.6M at Seed and $395k–$1.6M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Sebastien Lefevbre participates in.

### How do I contact Sebastien Lefevbre?

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### When did Sebastien Lefevbre last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sebastien Lefevbre closed in Dec 2022. Shizune tracks 5 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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